Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Update

I think in a past post I mentioned I wanted to read The Dead Travel Fast by Deanna Raybourn, thinking it would be stupid, but fun. Well, half right: it was definitely stupid. Not a total waste, I suppose, since I did come across a couple words I need to look up, but definitely thinking now about the couple of coffees I could have gotten for the price of the book.
On the bright side, when I was headed to the register with the book I spotted Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger, which I have been interested in reading, but was unwilling to pay full hardcover price for, and was stuck pretty far down on a list at the library - but there it was, with a 50% off sticker, and I got an additional 10% with my Barnes & Noble membership, so I picked it up. Of course, I have a stack of library books literally a foot high piled up on the floor in front of my fireplace, so I may not get to it until the thing's in paperback anyhow, but what the hell.
Also read that Regency mystery, When Gods Die, by C.S. Harris over the weekend - it was fine, nothing exciting, and I think I liked the first one better, but I barely remember it, so who knows. And some dreadful book about New Netherland, and a murder, and some random other stuff...The Dutchman's Dilemma, maybe? Okay, maybe not dreadful, but boring.  Certainly will not be returning to that author, whoever it is, that is for d**m sure, but I will probably read another Harris at some point if I need a book for the busride home from work or something.
Happily ensconced in The Big Over Easy from Jasper Fforde's "Nursery Crimes" series right now - maybe too happily, as I snuggled down into my covers with it last night when I should have been doing my homework. It's not the Thursday Next series, but I still think I just love anything Fforde does...how many books make you giggle, and laugh out loud?

1 comment:

  1. Why don't you just read Ayn Rand, fascist.

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